10 Tech Skills That Will Earn You Over $100,000

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Jan 31, 2014 at 3:31 PM

Alison Griswold

A new report from tech jobs database Dice.com contains a breakdown of the industry's most valuable skills.

According to Dice's data, there are dozens of programming and data skills that will net you, on average, over $100,000, and some that routinely clear $110,000. Most of these skills are also quite specialized, Dice President Shravan Goli says, which helps boost their value.

The top-earning skill is R, a programming language most commonly used by statisticians and data miners. Of the more than 17,236 technology professionals Dice surveyed, those with that skill reported an average salary of $115,531.

We've compiled a ranking of the 10 top-paying tech skills below. If you're looking to make a career investment, these could be a good place to start:

1. R What it is: A programming language widely used among statisticians and data miners Average salary people with it earn: $115,531

2. NoSQL What it is: A collection of database and data storage technologies Average salary people with it earn: $114,796

3. MapReduce What it is: A programming model used to process and generate large data sets Average salary people with it earn: $114,396

4. PMBok What it is: A standardized guide to project management Average salary people with it earn: $112,382

5. Cassandra What it is: An open source distributed data management system Average salary people with it earn: $112,382

6. Omnigraffle What it is: An application used to create diagrams, charts, illustrations, and other graphics Average salary people with it earn: $111,039

7. Pig What it is: A data analysis tool Average salary people with it earn: $109,561

8. Service Oriented Architecture What it is: A software design that helps computers cooperate over a network Average salary people with it earn: $108,997

9. Hadoop What it is: An open-source software for storage and data processing Average salary people with it earn: $108,669

10. Mongo DB What it is: An open-source document database Average salary people with it earn: $107,825

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